Canadian Avalanche Association Quebec Collaborative Avalanche Project (2001-2004)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Snow avalanches largely remain an unfamiliar phenomena to the general population of the province of Quebec of eastern Canada. However avalanches are a real risk in Quebec in particular to backcountry recreationists (skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, snowshoers) venturing into avalanche terrain. Over the last three decades, avalanche accidents in Quebec have included 80 victims of which 33 were killed and over 50 were injured. These statistics do not take into account the numerous unreported incidents. In response to the need to mitigate the risks from avalanches in Quebec, the Canadian Avalanche Association (CAA) was invited in 1999 by avalanche safety stakeholders in Quebec to provide collaborative assistance to enhance their capacity to deliver avalanche accident prevention measures and Search and Rescue best practices in Quebec, whose population is predominantly French-speaking. The CAA, along with its supporters, sponsors, and partners initiated the Quebec Collaborative Avalanche Project (QCAP) in 2001 and successfully completed the project in 2004. The project was made possible through the financial support of the National Search and Rescue Secretariat’s New Initiatives Fund Program and the sponsorship of Parks Canada. The goal of QCAP was to develop and deliver, through collaboration with Quebec stakeholders, a comprehensive package of targeted training and avalanche awareness programming that would increase preparedness, reduce risk of involvement and improve response capacity resulting in a high quality, selfsustaining avalanche safety capacity in Quebec. The results and outcomes of QCAP have surpassed expectations of the CAA. The project’s initiative managed to greatly increase over the past 4 years the long-awaited need for avalanche awareness, training and education in Quebec. The CAA and its partners are currently broadening their scope to Eastern Canada and aligning Quebec into national public avalanche safety initiatives through federal and provincial funding. Corresponding author address: Marc Deschenes Canadian Avalanche Association 917 Hall Street Nelson, BC V1L 1Z7 Canada (250) 352-9857 mdeschenes@telus.net
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".